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Feminist scholars argue that ‘New media’ is masculine and hence reinforces structural hierarchies rather than reconfiguring them. Comment.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Social Change in Modern Society

The claim is not the trivial one that more men are online. It is that new media is gendered in its constitution — in who designs, owns, codes and moderates it — so that mere participation by women does not translate into power. Read that way, the statement is largely sustainable, but it requires a…

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